“Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility?”
These are the questions from Laura Flanders’ opening statements at the Transnational Institute’s convening on Transformative Cities in Amsterdam during July 2018.
Ao longo desta quinta-feira, dia 04 de outubro, especialistas se reuniram para debater os 30 anos da Constituição Federal brasileira no Centro Cultural da Fundação Getulio Vargas. O evento “30 Anos de Constituição: Democracia, Instituições e Realidade” foi organizado pela FGV Direito Rio e contou com abertura do diretor da Escola, Sérgio Guerra.
The community of Latin America and the Caribbean has maintained an incessant activity in community networks topics, particularly during September. This work has been reflected in various spaces, highlighting the Latin American Summit of Community Networks that took place in Argentina.
A Work with History
Refugee Phrasebook provides useful phrases and information for newcomers
Jerry Michalski: “Trust” is one of those words we think we understand, but mostly we don’t. In particular, we don’t understand the role of trust in designing our institutions. Worse, few of us question how our institutions are designed. We humans are so adorably adaptable, no?
Über das Papiertheater „Der Mikado“: Im 19. Jahrhundert kamen in Europa Papiertheater als neue Unterhaltungsform auf. Sie boten die Möglichkeit, sich die große Welt des Theaters in kleinem Format ins Haus zu holen, waren damit lehrreich und forderten zudem einiges an handwerklichem Geschick – schließlich musste das Theater zunächst einmal selbst aus Papierbögen zusammengebaut werden.
Mit Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger wird in diesem Jahr der Meyer-Struckmann-Preis einer international herausragenden Historikerin im Bereich der Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit zuerkannt. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, die seit 1997 den Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Münster innehatte und seit September 2018 Präsidentin des Berliner Wissenschaftskollegs ist, hat zu zahlreichen Themengebieten wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten vorgelegt.
Less than a year ago, the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (the ‘UN GGE’, for short) famously came to a deadlock in its determination of how international law applies to cyberspace. Comprising 25 states, the GGE was formed to […]
Familiares, amigos, autoridades universitarias, estudiantes y funcionarios del Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos Doctor Fernando Mönckeberg Barros (INTA), se reunieron este miércoles 26 de septiembre con el fin de celebrar y rendir homenaje a la trayectoria de más de 50 años en la investigación y la academia del profesor Espejo, lo que el pasado mes de agosto le valió ser distinguido por el Estado de Chile como Premio Nacional.El Rector (s) de la U.
Are you ready? Are your systems prepared so that DNS will keep functioning for your networks? One week from today, on Thursday, October 11, 2018, at 16:00 UTC ICANN will change the cryptographic key that is at the center of the DNS security system – what we call DNSSEC. The current key has been in place since July 15, 2010. This is a long-planned replacement.
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as part of our work with the Online Trust Alliance and our Internet of Things (IoT) campaign, we think October also deserves another label… International IoT Security and Privacy Month. There are a number of significant activities and developments related to security and privacy.
Donna Strickland is an optical physicist at the University of Waterloo. She is also the winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics (as of two days ago), a former president and fellow of the Optical Society, and early in her career was the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship.
While a new fund by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has disappointed some Internet advocacy groups, we believe it could be critical to bringing Indigenous and northern communities online and closing Canada’s digital divide.
Der Biophysiker studierte von 1995 bis 2001 Physik an den Universitäten Göttingen und Caen in Frankreich. Anschließend promovierte er 2004 am Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Physik in Göttingen, wo er danach ein weiteres Jahr als Post-Doktorand weiterforschte. Es folgte ein weiterer Post-Doktorandenaufenthalt an der Stanford Universität in USA, dort in der Abteilung für Strukturbiologie. 2009 kehrte er nach Deutschland zurück und arbeitet seitdem als Gruppenleiter am Forschungszentrum Jülich in der Abteilung „Computational Structural Biology“. Mit Wirkung zum 1.
Fake News affecting polls – a possibility feared for the Brazilian Presidential Elections this year. As Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux has claimed the election results could even be annulled. But how can courts measure the impact of fake news? Clara Iglesias Keller, visiting researcher at HIIG, deals with this question. According to Supreme Court Justice Luiz…
Beth Simone Noveck at the Washington Post: “In October 2017, as Hurricane Irma battered the U.S. East Coast, M.I.T.’s Urban Risk Lab worked with Florida’s Broward County to pilot a free, open-source platform that enabled flood-affected residents to use popular social media channels to add information to a publicly-available map.
We are very excited about the launch of our new publication:
Radical Realism for Climate Justice. A Civil Society Response to the Challenge of Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial is feasible, and it is our best hope of achieving environmental and social justice, of containing the impacts of a global crisis that was born out of historical injustice and highly unequal responsibility.
The doctoral thesis ”Critique of Liberal Eugenics: The Ethics and History of Selective Reproduction” by Dr. Robert Ranisch (www.ranisch.com) was awarded the AeV Junior Research Prize „Medicine and Ethics“. This work was compiled under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Birnbacher (Düsseldorf) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Potthast while taking part in the Research Training Group "Bioethics" at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW).
Verantwortlich waren im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereichs SFB 974 Wissenschaftler/-innen aus dem Deutschen Diabetes-Zentrum (DDZ), dem Leibniz-Zentrum für Diabetes-Forschung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) um Prof. Dr. Eckhard Lammert, zusammen mit Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern der HHU und des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf (UKD). Die Ergebnisse wurden in der aktuellen Ausgabe der Zeitschrift „Nature“ veröffentlicht.